Toni Collette

Has the blunt energy of a teamster's truck taking on speed bumps...watch underrated actors Broderick and Baldwin try to outdo each other.

[Jerks] every tear in the "chick-lit" book...but the fertile combination of Hanson, Grant, and the stars allows blossoms of truth and humor to spring up out of the mulch.

The slippery natures of truth, fiction, lies, and wishful thinking...get full play in the screen adaptation of The Night Listener.

Pulls off the trick of the feel-good movie in a way movies haven't managed in a long time.

There's an underlying, unifying power and credibility to Moncrieff's cumulative assertion that degradation is expected of too many women, and too often expected by themselves.

From its laughably lyrical opening to its bow-tying resolution, Lajos Koltai's Evening invites comparisons to Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movies.

A war between the states...

While it's unspooling, it has enough visual snap, narrative tension, and humor for a satisfying 'drive-in movie' diversion.

Reenactment cinema...On balance, Hitchcock is about as entertaining and as trustworthy as a tabloid.

McCarthy delivers another all-in performance, but so much so as to be more sad than funny much of the time.

Knives Out cannot help but be fanciful fun, particularly for murder-mystery fans...Johnson adds ballast to what would otherwise be a lightweight tale by suggesting sociopolitical allegory.